RhadaTip DPS/HPS Tooltip

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At the moment there isn't one. I will see what I can do about halting the coroutine which computes it without leaving it in a inconsistent state. Chances are though that you have a lot of unneeded items which you should think of removing from the computation first, either using the ilvl filter or placing them temporarely in the bank while waiting for the dungeon to start.

The short answer is that this behavior is indeed correct.

The long answer is that before computing every possible gear combination, a first filter is applied. An item's self dps is either a static value(items without hit/expertise), an upper bound value (items with hit/expertise), or a lower bound value(tier items). In other words, suppose that you have 2 headpieces, 1 with hit rating, I'll call it Head-1, and one without it, Head-2. Also imagine that you are currently using Spec-1 scales. Under these conditions, you have that Head-1 self dps value is 430, and Head-2 self dps value is 400. RhadaTip reckons that Head-1's self value is higher, but it can't know for sure that it will be the best headpiece to use. Why? Because those 430 dps are an upper bound value, only actually achieved under the circumstance where you can make use of all the hit rating on Head-1. It therefore has to test every possible gear mix with both Head-1 and Head-2.
Now suppose that swapping weights, and possibly also hit cap, tier bonuses etc, Head-1 is worth 450 dps, and Head-2 is worth 455. Will RhadaTip test all possible gear combinations taking into account both the helmets? The answer is obviously no, because Head-2 doesn't have hit/expertise, and its value is therefore not an upper bound, but an actual, static one. Under every circumstance, Head-2 is superior to Head-1 now, and Head-1 is simply ignored. Expand this to all item slots, and remember that the combinations grow exponentially, and you have your 400k. You simply have to remove some items from your bags or filter the lowest itemlevels.

Semantically, yes, but not practically. The semantic value of an item won't be his actual dps contribution anymore, your total gear value will change (but we know that its actual value is irrelevant, as it should not be used as a comparison value for Recount etc), but in the end the comparisons between items will still be accurate.

Interesting ideas, I'll have to give them some thoughts. Primary ones are:

1. Possibly with an input box where you type in the item ids of the items you want to ignore. Would this suffice?

2. A list is already displayed together with the equipping of the best combo, in the unfortunate case that the best combo can't be equipped, say due to exceeding the jc only gem cap on the selected items. Whether this should be the only thing that it does by default, I don't necessarely agree with. If you have 1 role and no pvp gear, you will likely have no sets configured in the gear manager, and not care about the equipping. On the other hand, if you have pvp and offspec sets, you will likely make heavy use of the equipment manager so it won't be a big issue if it swaps your gear around. Gem and enchants are likely not going to happen. Enchants won't because the mod doesn't support them, due to the design decision to ignore them, as any item of the same slot would have the same enchant, and therefore it won't change the comparison between the two. Gems are supported, but the gear optimizer is already borderline too slow (not my fault that WoW isn't as fast as an external C software :)), even adding a non exaustive gem optimization to each item would break it. Consider that each item has at most 27 different ways to be gemmed, excluding hit and expertise gems. Doing that during the gear optimization is simply too much to ask to WoW. The complexity will of course grow even more if every time an item is evaluated, I can't just focus on my objective function of maximing that item's value, but I'd have to backtrack the previous gem choises, for example due to metagem activation concerns.

When you select gems in the gem input tab (/rt hc), you are telling the mod to use those gems when you open a tooltip of an item with empty sockets. The gems selected here, minus the metagem in a sense, are irrelevant to the gem optimizer. The 3 gems on the gem-optimizer left handside frame aren't random, they are the best 3 gems for you (excluding any gem with hit/expertise, which is only taken into account if you will run an exaustive optimization). Let's make an example:

in /rt hc I select
red -> 23 spellpower
yellow -> 12 spellpower+10 crit
blue -> 12 spellpower+10 spirit

If I open the gem optimizing frame I will see on the left
red -> 23 spellpower
yellow -> 12 spellpower+10 haste
blue -> 12 spellpower+10 spirit

Why did it change the yellow one? Because the one I chose and saved in /rt hc is not the highest dps yellow gem, it computes that according to my scaling values there is a better yellow gem, and therefore will use that one when computing the best gemming for any item, rather than what you selected in /rt hc.

I'm not sure what you mean by "cant see the itemid dps thingy". But in the example above, where I selected 12sp+10 crit in /rt hc, and it picks 12sp+10 haste in the gem optimizer, imagine that I check on atlasloot an item with a unsocketed yellow gem. The mousehovering of the item in atlasloot will show the item value using 12sp+10 crit. You can then run the optimizer using the item id, and the optimizer will show you the value using the 12sp+10 haste gem. If your combination of gems in /rt hc leads to x dps when mousehovering an item in Atlasloot, and the gem optimizer passing the same item's id returns Y dps using the different gems, and Y<X, you have found a bug, therefore I'll need a screenshot of your scales, item id etc :)

I'll check the Balanced gem, if it has stamina I might have removed it and will re-add it in the next update.

This is how it works.
By default the gem optimizer ignores gems that provide hit and expertise, as those stats have caps.
In this case, it will tell you how to gem the item in the best possible way, using the best gems for you that do not provide hit or expertise. If you are talking about this "normal" optimization, it is correct that it ignores the rest of your gear, ad the value of the item gemmed with non-hit and non-expertise gems is independent of the rest of your gear.

Example. My best non-hit, non-expertise gems are +23 sp, +12sp+10haste, +12sp+10 spi. The default optimizer will test all possible combinations of those and determine which combo is optimal for any given item.

Suppose though that I'm not hit capped. Hit is my best stat, therefore hit gems might (depends on many things) be more convenient than the 3 gems above. In this case I can check the Exaustive Optimization checkbox and fire the gem optimization on any given item. In this case, the rest of your gear MUST be considered, as how to gem strictly depends on the hit cap and the amount of hit on your currently equipped gear.

This is the detailed description. Cut short:
- The "normal" gem optimizer ignores hit/expertise gems, and therefore doesn't care about the rest of your items.
- The "exaustive" gem optimizer considers all existing gems, and therefore must consider your whole gear set.

The latter is obviously slower, so if you are hit/expertise capped, you should not use the exaustive optimization.

"Well I see, however that's not happening. On my character sheet I am not hit nor expertise capped.
Hit is my highest scaled stat before cap, I have set hit and expertise caps, and the exhaustive search is selected. But the gem optimizer still ignores hit and/or expertise and simply tells me to gem strength everywhere, except yellow slots which it tells me to gem with haste/stam, which is completely inaccurate, and not even how the stat weights are set up (haste is mostly ignored according to the stat weights I put in)."

Are you talking about the left handside gems or the right handside ones? The left handside gems never change, only the right handside ones do, once you click the Optimize button. Not sure what your misconfiguration issue might be, but if you check my shoulder item (Rhadamanthys - Shadowsong Europe) you will see a +20 hit gem in its yellow socket, which sends me at 9.95% hit out of a 10% hit cap, so the exaustive optimization indeed worked.

"Also, when doing the exhaustive check, as you have said it must check all your gear. Shouldn't the addon be able to take into account metagem requirements? I am not trying to work you to death here, but without taking into account all factors, the gem optimization fails utterly as a feature."

Checking all your gear doesn't mean that it will return how to gem every single item of your gear(in which case it would be mandatory to add some kind of metagem check), just that it checks how much hit and expertise you have on your gear to be able to include hit/exp gems to the computation. The scope is still how to gem the item of interest, and just that one, in this it isn't any different than the normal non exaustive optimization (ie, they both require you to think for a second if that gemming would break the metagem). Metagems can't be handled. There is no way to optimize those, as scaling values aren't enough to compute their value. WoW provides no API to get what a metagem requirement is, etc etc. All in all:

1- The optimizer helped me to find out that for my current leggings matching 1 red 1 yellow 1 blue socket + the item's socket bonus is worth it over gemming 3x red.

2- The optimizer told me to gem 2x red and ignore the socket bonus on other occasions, like when I had T8 leggings.

3- The exaustive gem optimization correctly told me to get +20 hit in my shoulders.

The only things it can't do, mostly due to the lack of proper api are:

1- understand that if you gem an item like it tells you, you will break the metagem.

2- understand that you are a Jewelcrafter, and you can equip 1 more Dragon Eye gem.

That is far from useless, check how many questions on wow forums there are everyday about gemmings, or the gemmings of high level players in high profile guilds. All those questions on forums can be answered with the addon(and a slight neuronal activity from the player).

They are definitely way too many. Are you using the itemlevel filter? With every single piece of ilvl 200 gear not taken out of my bags, which includes items like monkey trinket sphere etc, I can only generate as many as 15k combinations, which never take more than 2-3 minutes to compute. If you are already filtering items with an ilvl lower than 200 with the gear optimizer, and yet get 3.2 million combinations, I'm afraid that you have to swap some stuff out of the bags and park it in your bank, pvp/offspec sets to begin with.